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Libby Sk8er Girl #225: "Canned Sk8er Girl"

Don't worry, I haven't been fired.

By Brian T. Sullivan | June 18, 2025

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Polarnoids #258

Golf Club Sandwiches tend to be higher in iron these days.

By Brian T. Sullivan | June 15, 2025

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Libby Sk8er Girl #224: "Libby Lagomorph"

The only problem here is that I can't do skateboard tricks when I'm a silly rabbit…

By Brian T. Sullivan | June 11, 2025

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1. Blender? I keep wanting to get into 3D modeling, but then I don't.

2. They're all about the same. Drawing comics and other narrative-oriented stuff kinda helps force me to draw people in different perspectives and poses.

3. Inanimate objects coming to life. Not being a huge fan of authority.

4. Hats with brims, like fedoras, cowboy hats, pork pie hats, etc. There are so many curves to keep track of ON TOP of making sure it looks like the hat is (a) on the person's head and (b) pointed the right direction. But hats are cool, so… ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

5. 90% / 10%…Most of what I draw ends up being posted, because I'm trying (as best as I can) to make a living off of this.

6. I had someone say once that my art style reminded them of Scooby Doo, and I was like, "I didn't mean for that to happen, but I am a bit of a Scooby Doo nut!"

7. I find almost all art media to be cool and interesting in one way or another. I especially like print making, though (particularly woodblock), and I haven't done any of my own…yet!

8. Vlogging/educational YouTube videos. Aside from that, there are just stories and things that I've had ideas for, but I don't see those as losing interest so much as they just aren't where I need them to be yet.

9. yyyy-mm-dd-PieceTitle.<extension>

10. All of them. Clothes are interesting.

11. I often play YouTube videos in the background. The topics are varied. Often a mix of art, crafting, cars, movies, comics, retro tech, science, history (mostly things that AREN'T wars), One Piece, Star Wars, Star Trek, and Disney parks.

12. Anything but ankles and butts.

13. They're writers, but George R. R. Martin and Alan Moore. I'm not really a fan of their stuff, but I enjoy reading and listening to them discuss their approaches to storytelling and such.

14. People being themselves and being happy.

15. Mostly in my art studio.

16. I don't know…I like most of the process.

17. I usually have water to drink. Sometimes soda ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

18. Very few. Pretty much just a mechanical pencil one time and my brush pen another time, when I left it un-capped all day by accident :P

19. Glass/translucent objects.

20. Hands and feet.

21. Realistic and photorealistic. I tend to draw things more cartoony, but I think it's really cool when someone can realistically capture things like light and texture just with lines or paint strokes. I really like Alex Ross, for instance, but my art style is nothing like his.

22. I wake up.

23. If this means blending modes, then yes, I do…when it helps achieve the look I'm going for.

24. Not very often.

25. My art was compared to anime a little bit before I had ever really watched any anime. Of course, now I'm really into anime, so it has been incorporated. Still, I think my art style is still mostly inspired by things like Disney and Looney Tunes, which, to be fair, may have inspired certain mangaka and anime artists, especially going back to Tezuka and stuff.

26. Idk…I haven't really had an experience like that (yet).

27. No. I just kinda start drawing what I need to draw.

28. I had a 4-page comic in a music-inspired anthology a year ago. I also had a table at a local comic con a few months ago.

29. Everything inspires me. Part of my problem is that I will find things that touch me and then want desperately to make something like that, even though I'm in the middle of three projects that I want to finish 🙃

30. This one that I did of Frieren last year:

Weirdly Specific Artist Ask Game

Didn't see a lot of artist ask games, wanted to make a silly one.

(I wrote this while sick out of my mind last year and it's been collecting dust in my drafts, I might as well let it run free) 1. Art programs you have but don't use

2. Is it easier to draw someone facing left or right (or forward even)

3. What ideas come from when you were little

4. Fav character/subject that's a bitch to draw

5. Estimate of how much of your art you post online vs. the art you keep for yourself

6. Anything that might inspire you subconsciously (i.e. this horse wasn't supposed to look like the Last Unicorn but I see it)

7. A medium of art you don't work in but appreciate

8. What's an old project idea that you've lost interest in

9. What are your file name conventions

10. Favorite piece of clothing to draw

11. Do you listen to anything while drawing? If so, what

12. Easiest part of body to draw

13. A creator who you admire but whose work isn't your thing

14. Any favorite motifs

15. *Where* do you draw (don't drop your ip address this just means do you doodle at a park or smth)

16. Something you are good at but don't really have fun doing

17. Do you eat/drink when drawing? if so, what

18. An estimate of how much art supplies you've broken

19. Favorite inanimate objects to draw (food, nature, etc.)

20. Something everyone else finds hard to draw but you enjoy

21. Art styles nothing like your own but you like anyways

22. What physical exercises do you do before drawing, if any

23. Do you use different layer modes

24. Do your references include stock images

25. Something your art has been compared to that you were NOT inspired by

26. What's a piece that got a wildly different interpretation from what you intended

27. Do you warm up before getting to the good stuff? If so, what is it you draw to warm up with

28. Any art events you have participated in the past (like zines)

29. Media you love, but doesn't inspire you artistically

30. What piece of yours do you think is underrated

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Polarnoids #257

Not a tangent, but Penguin's sister also wanted him to do something trigonometric with a lease?

By Brian T. Sullivan | June 8, 2025

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Libby Sk8er Girl #223: "Padmé Cosplé"

Bet the guy doesn't like sand…

By Brian T. Sullivan | June 4, 2025

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Polarnoids #256

They're multifaceted.

By Brian T. Sullivan | June 1, 2025

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Libby Sk8er Girl #222: "Dizzy Miss Libby"

Spin…Spin…Spin…Spin…Spin…Spin…

By Brian T. Sullivan | May 28, 2025

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Polarnoids #255

This comic was EXCEEDingly good, right?

[Ani-May 2025 #4]

By Brian T. Sullivan | May 25, 2025

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Libby Sk8er Girl #221: "Sk8lock Holmes"

Grade for Episode 221: B.

By Brian T. Sullivan | May 21, 2025

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Polarnoids #254

I wonder if the Polarnoids have ever considered using snails to communicate…

[Ani-May 2025 #3]

By Brian T. Sullivan | May 18, 2025

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Libby Sk8er Girl #220: "The Concept of Clothing"

Anna! Watch the road! You don't want Siobhán's soda to spill on her shir—Oh, wait…

By Brian T. Sullivan | May 14, 2025

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Polarnoids #253

SEE YOU SPACE COWBEE…

[Ani-May 2025 #2]

By Brian T. Sullivan | May 11, 2025

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A little comic by Brian T. Sullivan (c'est moi).

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Libby Sk8er Girl #219: "Shelly Surfer Gal"

She's just so cool!

By Brian T. Sullivan | May 7, 2025

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Monkey D. Luffy

Happy birthday, Luffy!

I got a new brush pen today, after my old one died ignominiously, and I wanted to test it out with a quick, loose Luffy picture 🏴‍☠️

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Polarnoids #252

Apparently, the planets do this sometimes, too.

[Ani-May 2025 #1]

By Brian T. Sullivan | May 4, 2025